Mukarram Jah was Crowned As Asaf Jah The 8th On Apr 6, 1967

Hyderabad, Jan 16 (Maxim News): The 8th Nizam of Hyderabad, Mukarram Jah who passed away in Istanbul in Turkey has been crowned as Asaf Jah the Either on April 6, 1967, after the passing away of Mir Osman Ali Khan in February 1967. The heir to the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad was the grandson of the last reigning Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan.

Born to Prince Azam Jah and Princess Durrushehvar in 1933 in French, he moved to Turkey after spending part of his life in the Australian outback. His mother was the imperial princess of the Ottoman Empire.

He did his schooling at Doon School in Dehradun and prominent schools in England’s London and Cambridge. He was also an alumnus of the London School of Economics.

Mukkaram Jah was a friend of India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. He stated in 2010 that Nehru had wanted him to become his envoy or the Indian ambassador to a Muslim country.

His net worth which declined after giving up a few assets during a divorce settlement in the year the 1990s was noted to have been around one billion Dollars as the owner of some iconic buildings in the city including Falaknuma Palace and Chowmahalla Palace. He owned the Nazri Bagh Palace, Chiraan Palace, Purani Haveli in Hyderabad and naukhanda Palace in Aurangabad.

Mukkaram Jah married five women, and the first was with a Turkish noblewoman. He reportedly divorced her as she did not want to move from Hyderabad Palace to a sheep station in the Australian outback. He then married a former BBC employee and air hostess. After her death, he married Miss Turkey Manolya Onur in 1992. He married twice more to a Moroccan woman and a Turkish woman.

On Tuesday, the family will allow his mortal remains to be kept at Hyderabad’s Chowmahalla Palace. “As per his desire of being laid to rest in his homeland, his children are scheduled to travel to Hyderabad with the mortal remains of the late Nizam on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. (Maxim News)

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